Buprenorphine was associated with a 50% reduction in mortality and improved treatment retention for adolescents with opioid use disorder.

United States overdose deaths in 2025 fell to levels similar to before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overdose deaths for the ...

Santa Barbara County has seen a 41% drop in overdose deaths since 2023, according to a report from the Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Bill Brown shared the ...

Beginning in 2023, there was less fentanyl in the U.S. drug supply. The opioid-overdose reversing drug naloxone’s availability is increasing and so is access to addiction treatment. Experts say the ...

This study investigated how geography helps explain the striking increase in opioid-related overdose deaths among Black Americans since the proliferation of fentanyl. Using mortality data from the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island is reversing a devastating trend amid the fentanyl crisis by leading New York City with the steepest decline in fatal drug overdoses among the five boroughs. Staten ...